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French Literature Before 1800Michell, Robert Bell (Editor) / Bradley, Robert Foster (Editor): F. S. Crofts & Co.; New York, New York 1937 Third Printing Hard Cover Good with No Dust Jacket as issued: 6 x 9.25 in.: 493 pages

003258: 003258: No Jacket as Issued. Content stories are in French. Has penciled notations on various content pages and inscription by original owner on front flyleaf. "The present volume is devoted for the most part to French literature of the so-called classical period, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... The seventeenth century is represented by some twenty-five authors, including all the great writers, and a number of minor ones, like Balzac, Pellisson, Vaugelas, Voiture, Mlle de Scudery, Perrault and Fontenelle, whose productions throw light on certain literary developments of the period. " Scarce, Out Of Print, Book.

Saint Joan Of ArcSackville-West, V.: The Literary Guild; New York, New York 1936 Presumed First Edition Hard Cover Very Good with no Dust Jacket: 6.25 x 9.25 in.: 395 pages

004044: 004044: Front flyleaf has been previously removed. "Born January 6th, 1412 * Burned as a heretic, May 30th, 1431 * Canonised as a saint, May 16th, 1920" Boards are red cloth with embossed emblem on front cover and gilt lettering on a black block on spine. Page block's front edge is rough cut. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book.

004055: 004055: First Printing (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2) . Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. "In a fascinating dual biography of these two American expatriates, Brenda Wineapple tells the story of a powerful, poignant relationship rooted in love, longing, and smoldering rivalry, a relationship so profound that when it ruptured in 1914, sister and brother never spoke to each other again. " Scarce, Out Of Print, Book.

005930: 005930: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Translated from the French by Nina Rootes. Book has small black mark on front and back flyleaf pages. Dustjacket has worn spots on front and back, as well as small edge cuts. LCCN# 74-1786. "Chronicles the development of French eating habits throughout the nineteenth century with wit, erudition, and the social historian's keen eye for detail. "

007478: 007478: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. BRAND NEW. Dustjacket, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "They never existed and were simply bastards of my imagination,' said Alexandre Dumas, of his famous Three Musketeers, but this is untrue. Athos, Aramis and Porthos were flesh and blood. Their supposedly fictional duel with Cardinal Richelieu's guards actually took place in 1640 and Charles d'Artagnan, a teenager on his first day in Paris, fought alongside the Musketeers. Many other elements of the tale are also true - the Cardinal's agent, Milady de Winter, really was an English aristocrat, and against all odds, d'Artagnan did succeed in becoming Captain of the King's Musketeers, the only person whom Louis XIV could trust to arrest his over-mighty minister, Fouquet. It was d'Artagnan who escorted Fouquet to the feared Alpine fortress of Pignerol, wherein lived the most mysterious of all prisoners, the Man in the Iron Mask. Oxford historian Roger MacDonald has spent five years unravelling fact from fiction to uncover the true story of the Musketeers and their connection with the Man in the Iron Mask. It is a reality more extraordinary than any tale Dumas could devise. Honour and heroism, betrayal and intrigue, are set amidst the lust, jealousy and deadly poisons that made the Sun King's court a world of frenzied paranoia. The Musketeers ride again across the pages of real history in this superbly researched account, and in his exciting denouement MacDonald at last reveals the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask."

007559: 007559: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. BRAND NEW. Dustjacket, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "They never existed and were simply bastards of my imagination,' said Alexandre Dumas, of his famous Three Musketeers, but this is untrue. Athos, Aramis and Porthos were flesh and blood. Their supposedly fictional duel with Cardinal Richelieu's guards actually took place in 1640 and Charles d'Artagnan, a teenager on his first day in Paris, fought alongside the Musketeers. Many other elements of the tale are also true - the Cardinal's agent, Milady de Winter, really was an English aristocrat, and against all odds, d'Artagnan did succeed in becoming Captain of the King's Musketeers, the only person whom Louis XIV could trust to arrest his over-mighty minister, Fouquet. It was d'Artagnan who escorted Fouquet to the feared Alpine fortress of Pignerol, wherein lived the most mysterious of all prisoners, the Man in the Iron Mask. Oxford historian Roger MacDonald has spent five years unravelling fact from fiction to uncover the true story of the Musketeers and their connection with the Man in the Iron Mask. It is a reality more extraordinary than any tale Dumas could devise. Honour and heroism, betrayal and intrigue, are set amidst the lust, jealousy and deadly poisons that made the Sun King's court a world of frenzied paranoia. The Musketeers ride again across the pages of real history in this superbly researched account, and in his exciting denouement MacDonald at last reveals the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask."